Re: Music Library Clean Up

I bought TuneUP for my mac after seeing the demo at Macworld a few years ago. It renames all random songs I got from Limewire and the like oh so long ago. I've been pretty happy with it, but with the advent of the Mac app store I'll bet something better has come along for free for mac.

Re: Music Library Clean Up

iTunes can do it, but I hate iTunes. I personally use Tag & Rename. I believe it is shareware. I am not sure of the limitations if you don't pay, and it's not automated- but I don't trust automated software, because they tend to screw things up.

It has the ability to check CDDB as well as Amazon. It can rename files, folders, add artwork, pull all the Track/Album info from the previously mentioned sources. It's a really nice piece of software. I recently used it to retag all of my MP3's. It took awhile since it's somewhat manual, but at least you know everything is right.

Originally Posted by bmack86

Women just obviously can't write creative music. They're all ripping off the Beatles, who were men. Duh.

Re: Music Library Clean Up

Originally Posted by citizenerased

Itunes has "get album artwork" and "display duplicates" features.

Those things don't always work. And what I'm more specifically talking about is when you've downloaded way too many albums without proper tags. For example I've got hundreds of songs without track numbers and even more with all the information consolidated into the track name, and I'm looking for a program that'll save me the time it'd take to sort through them all individually.

Re: Music Library Clean Up

Originally Posted by malcolmjamalawesome

TuneUp will also fuck up a lot of your tracks (name them the wrong thing, etc)

Only time I've ever really run into something like this was when it was an obscure remix of a song or a mash up by a random mash up DJ. My biggest complaint about TuneUp is its album art functionality. It also seems to want to label many songs as from some random best of 'party hits', 'NOW!' or 'one-hit wonder album compilation opposed to the original artists' album. This may have to do with random downloads from limewire and the like.

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^true. I'm anal about the info in my iTunes, I like it way organized so I just change it as the music is acquired... and the "get album artwork" on iTunes works about 80-90% of the time. So long as the album title is right.

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Just delete everything that is named "track 01" "track 02" etc. When you want to listen to whatever it was (since you didn't even know in the first place) you can just re-download it. For the time being you'll have more HD space, and once you get it again the tags will all be done correctly and the quality will be much higher I'm sure. Piracy 4-5 years ago was crap compared to what's going on now.

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Do it manually. I've been doing it with my massive music collection for a long time now. I've been pretty lazy about it lately, but over time it gets done. I use Winamp's media library to retitle things so I can do full artists catalogs all at once instead of song by song or album by album.

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you need to keep a few things in mind while organizing your music collection.....

the best way to do it is manually. I know this sounds tedious but its the only way your files are going to transfer correctly. You basically have to go through all the songs and edit their properties.... however, there are alternatives, if you want organize the info directly on your itunes how you want it. In theory it should save the format when and if you re-enter it back into your itunes. Another thing to take into consideration is there are programs that will copy the itunes format back onto your hard drive.

The most important thing to rmember is that if you decide to organize directly on your hard drive you should basically wipe your itunes clean because once the file titles are changed itunes wont be able to locate the specific file.

Im coming up on a year of reorganizing my 2T:

basically looks like this -

MUSIC < BAND NAME < (DATE) Album Title

Coachella 07 (the introduction), 08 (the bands), 09 (the documentary), 10 (the people i came with), 11 (the relationship test... we passed), 12 (whatever the weather, Dirty Epic forever), 13 (the year of the troll)

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itunes is the perfect jukebox, not to mention its easy for burning cds/playlists and the auto sound equalizer is pretty on point. I did however realize the unimportance of keeping things organized on itunes and more so keeping things in order on my external. But there is nothing wrong w/ using itunes.

* ive used the actual store less than a handful of times.
* i do run an older version

Coachella 07 (the introduction), 08 (the bands), 09 (the documentary), 10 (the people i came with), 11 (the relationship test... we passed), 12 (whatever the weather, Dirty Epic forever), 13 (the year of the troll)

Re: Music Library Clean Up

Originally Posted by TommyboyUNM

Why exactly do people hate iTunes? I never understood that. It organizes and plays my music. That's all you need, right?

I think it might have something to do with the fact that when you buy songs they're in a protected format, and that they don't automatically upload cds to desirable formats, instead opting for AAC, but those are both easily fixable. . .don't buy from the store, and change the upload settings.